Seoul City Completes Resource Recovery Facility Resident Briefing... "Continued Communication with Residents"

Held at World Cup Stadium
About 120 Residents Participated

[Asia Economy Reporter Kiho Sung] A residents' briefing session to explain the draft Strategic Environmental Impact Assessment (SEIA) for the Sangam-dong Metropolitan Resource Recovery Facility was held on the 28th at 10 a.m. in the World Cup Stadium Reception Hall, with about 120 residents participating.

This briefing session was an integrated meeting targeting residents of five neighboring districts?Eunpyeong, Seodaemun, Yeongdeungpo, Gangseo, and Yangcheon?in addition to Mapo-gu, where the candidate site is located. It was organized to provide detailed explanations of the environmental impacts caused by the expansion of the resource recovery facility within a 5 km radius of Sangam-dong, the candidate site, and to gather various residents' opinions.

This residents' briefing session is a legal procedure for collecting residents' opinions during the promotion of the Strategic Environmental Impact Assessment. Since the 21st of this month, Seoul City has been displaying the SEIA draft at 10 public viewing locations and online, and will accept residents' opinions via online submissions and mail until January 25 of next year.

The briefing session proceeded with explanations of the main contents of the SEIA draft. Based on on-site measurements and simulation analysis results, the city explained that even with the expansion of the resource recovery facility, emissions such as air quality, sanitation/public health, and odor in Sangam-dong and nearby areas meet the permissible standards.

Meanwhile, this residents' briefing session was conducted by accepting pre-registration applications from residents wishing to attend. For residents who could not attend due to the pre-registration deadline, the session was broadcast live through Seoul City's YouTube channel, with about 100 viewers. The city plans to hold visiting briefing sessions in early January next year for residents who request additional explanations until the 29th.

Yoo Yeon-sik, Director of the Climate and Environment Headquarters, said, "This residents' briefing session was an opportunity to explain the draft of the Strategic Environmental Impact Assessment," adding, "The city will continue to fully reflect the valuable opinions of residents in the SEIA."

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